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Universities pull apart data centres to consolidate at Fujitsu park.

Three Victorian universities plan to disassemble their internal data centres and consolidate their compute power in a new facility in Melbourne’s South East.

Monash University, RMIT (The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and the University of Melbourne have signed a multi-million dollar deal with Fujitsu for ten years, consolidating all three of their production data centres at the Japanese outsourcing company’s Noble Park data centre.

The three universities will initially move their enterprise computing environments into 500 square metres worth of Fujitsu’s existing data centre…..